Your score collection by albums per composer

I've always loved the track The Desert from TGTBATU, nobody and I repeat NOBODY does desert music better than Morricone.

I think everyone here has more Hans Zimmer scores than I do!? <--pride

That may very well be, but I'm kinda curious how he counts. His Elfman, for example, which is close to my own, and I have practically everything he has done - including hyperrare bootleg material that few others own (like the MODERN VAMPIRES soundtrack). For curiousity's sake, it would be interesting to see your Williams (and Elfman, for that matter) items, Erik, if you have the lists easily available. You could PM it to me, perhaps? If not, no worries.

Oh! My God. You are the man, Peter! you are true fan of Ennio Morricone.

I am talking about albums, however you would like to count albums. If you only own physical CDs, then you could simply count the number of physical jewelcases per composer. If, like me, your collection is entirely digital, your media player probably organizes your CDs by artist and album, and in that case we are counting albums for each artist. There will occasionally be duplicates, as I mentioned with the Star Wars example, but I doubt there will be many situations where there will be more than two albums per score. But yes, we are not counting scores, we are counting albums.

multi-CD set from same release = 1 album
different recordings of the same score = multiple albums
multiple releases of the same score (with different content) = multiple albums
commercial release + bootleg = multiple albums

Well, you're doing it wrong.

But it's a COMPETITION, you know. We nerds love to compare sizes....

It's always better if you put that size to good use rather than comparing it around

Everything I have is ripped to my computer, so my way of counting was simply seeing how many folders I had. My collection includes CDs, CD-roms gathered over the years and some I only have as mp3, so my number would vary depending on the rules of this game. I also counted some scores twice because I both have the official and unofficial releases. Also, several Poledouris albums have more than one score per album, for instance "Flyers" & "Fire on the mountain", and I counted each score by itself again. So I probably don't even have more than you, it could simply be the lazy way I made the count, i.e. by looking at how many folder I had.

Here's my list though:

Amanda
Amazons
Amerika
A whale for the killing
Big wednesday
Breakdown (Final and rejected score)
Breakdown (Rejected)
Celtic pride
Cherry 2000
Conan the barbarian
Conan the destroyer
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Farewell to the king
Film works
Fire on the mountain
Flesh+blood
Flight of the intruder
Flyers
Free Willy
Free Willy 2
For love of the game
Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man
House of God
Honor and glory
Hot shots! Part deux
Iron Eagle
It's my party
Kimberly
Lassie
Les misérables
Lonesome dove
Love & treason
Making the grade
Mickey blue eyes
Ned Blessing
No man's land
On deadly ground
Prison for children
Quigley down under
Red dawn
Return to the blue lagoon
Robocop
Serial mom
Single bars, single women
Spellbinder
Starship troopers
Switchback
The adventures of Conan-Sword and sorcery spectaular
The blue lagoon
The hunt for Red October
The hunt for Red October (Complete)
The jungle book
The legend of Butch & Sundance
The new twilight zone-A message from charity
The new twilight zone-Monsters
The touch
The war at home
Under siege 2-Dark territory
White fang
White fang (Expanded)
Wind

Peter

I used to maintain an Excel sheet when my collection was at 600 or so. I haven't updated it in the last couple of years and I think my collection has more than doubled. I'd reckon that I might have about 90 Morricone, 30 John Scott, 25 Delerue, 25 Donaggio. And beyond that I probably have a uniform distribution of Kilar, Talgorn, Frisina, Desplat, Armand Amar. Of course, there's a considerable spread with numerous obscure scores.

I just know the CDs from my favorite three composers:

Ennio Morricone: 80
James Horner: 52
John Williams: 37

What do you mean by "titles"?

This is getting totally confusing to me. Some are counting physical CD's, which is what I did (but which obviously encompass far more TITLES), some are counting commercial albums, some are counting bootlegs, some are counting non-film work, compilations etc.

So I've done the easiest thing....namely put my Williams collection doc-file to be downloaded here:

As I said earlier, I would LOVE to see Erik and fommes' lists too, if they have them easily available. Just to see what they've got that I don't. And perhaps vice versa. You can see mine if I can see yours etc.

Just so my case is clear, I was counting physical CD's not titles of scores. A CD case containing two CD's I counted as one.

You don't say!

Well, if you're NOT counting bootlegs, these are the expanded reissues I DO own:

JAWS
CE3K
E.T.
STAR WARS 1-3 (although these are going out tomorrow!)
STAR WARS: PHANTOM MENACE
THE FURY
SUPERMAN (Rhino 2CD)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (DCC)
INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM

Not bad for someone who hates that stuff. That leaves me these expanded reissues that I do NOT own (since I'm pleased with the originals):

PENELOPE
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
SUPERMAN (FSM box)
INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE
HOME ALONE 2

Not that many. Certainly doesn't account for the difference.

[edit: Nevermind. I just found out....it is indeed multiple versions of the same scores - including "private" versions - plus a number of compilations that I've never bothered with that make up the difference. On the plus side, I have more "esoteric" material and original compositions! ]